Canon EOS D30 Digital SLR

Page 8:Shutter Lag & Cycle Time Tests

Review First Posted: 8/27/2000

Shutter Lag/Cycle Times
We'll have a more complete set of test figures when we get a little more time
with a final production model D30 a bit later. In the meantime though, we wanted
to provide our readers with at least some indication of the D30's speed. (It's
pretty fast.) Here's the numbers we managed to collect on it in the short time
we had:

EOS D30 Timings

Operation

Time (secs)

Notes

Power On -> First shot

3.4

Time is delay until first shot captured after power-on.

Shutdown

0-30

No lens to retract as on consumer units, so effectively instant. Longer, variable time until CF card is done writing.

Play to Record, first shot

0.3

Time is delay until first shot captured. VERY fast!

Record to play (max res)

1.8-3.0

First time is for low-res display, fills-in with full res later.

Shutter lag, full autofocus

0.195

Highly lens-dependent. This was minimum for static subject, sequential pictures.